As for whether one could refrain from entrusting and imprinting one's own Dao upon the Chaos Dao after fully merging the Innate Imperishable True Spirit, Primordial Dao Fruit, and Hunyuan Ancestral Qi and attaining the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal Realm?
Of course one could!
The Great Dao was impartial and had no sentience. If a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal was unwilling to entrust and imprint their own Dao upon the Chaos Dao, it would not force them.
But naturally, they would lose all the benefits mentioned above!
The other benefits might not matter so much, but without even permission to comprehend the Chaos Dao, advancing one's cultivation would be extraordinarily difficult unless one was born in an immensely powerful world such as the Primordial World. And even in such a world, one's future achievements would be limited.
Comprehending the superficial Great Dao Rules contained in the boundless Chaos to develop and perfect one's own Dao—or doing so from nothing—was far less efficient than comprehending the mysteries of the Chaos Dao.
After all, even the mightiest world in the boundless Chaos, the Primordial World, could not begin to compare with the boundless Chaos itself.
Naturally, Yuan Yan intended to summon the Chaos Dao and entrust his own Dao's imprint to it!
Yuan Yan stood deep within the Inner Chaos for an instant. Then, with a thought, he manifested his Imperishable Primordial Spirit, unfolded his Yin-Yang Dao, and began communicating with the Chaos Dao.
Though he was not in the Outer Chaos but in the Primordial World's Inner Chaos, the Primordial World was part of the boundless Chaos. The Chaos Dao was everywhere, so he could communicate with it even here.
Hum! An incomparably vast and terrifying Great Dao Rule descended, condensing into the Great Dao Eye. As the eye appeared, the